Linking back to the Home page via a logo placed top-left is one of those design conventions/patterns that users of various experience appear to be learning. I haven't seen novice users navigating this way, but certainly users with moderate computer/internet literacy are.
However, I don't agree that the logo should have text in it (or added to it) that says 'home'. Users seem to be far more aware of standard header sections that include links such as home, about, contact, and the search field (usually top right). I think it's more consistent to leave the text link for 'Home' there. Aside from anything else, if 'Home' is added to the logo, it may interfere with branding, which is important to most clients. Christian, can you point us to an example where home text has been added to the logo on site sub-pages? I'm really interested to see the type of sites that are implementing this. Thanks and all the best, Lisa > -----Original Message----- > From: Christian Montoya [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On 2/23/06, Caleb Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think it should. I think people are used to clicking on a logo to > > return to the home page and if you are going to make the > logo a link - > > the "standard" location for it is home. > > I think we can make this a design pattern. One thing that helps is for > the logo to have a bit of text like "home" in it on subpages of the > site. > ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
